Title
CONTRACT K-1617-69: A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND ARCHITECTS DESIGN GROUP, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $150,300 TO PROVIDE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS AND DISPATCH CENTER PROJECT, PHASE 1.
Body
BACKGROUND: This item is a contract with an architectural firm to provide initial planning and design services for the Emergency Operations and Dispatch Project, Phase 1 services. The Phase 1 services include a detailed spatial needs assessment, analysis, master planning, and site surveying, and a conceptual building design. The background and history of the Project that has solidified funding and brought the City to this point is outlined below.
On April 1, 2014, the voters of Norman approved Ordinance O-1314-33, extending the dedicated 1/2 percent Public Safety Sales Tax (PSST) permanently (effective October 1, 2015). The Ordinance directed that 71 personnel added to the City public safety workforce be made permanent; an additional 19 personnel be added over a period of four years (13 police officers to staff a School Resource Officer program; 4 additional Dispatchers; and 2 Emergency Vehicle Mechanics); and a program to replace or acquire Critical Public Safety Capital Needs be implemented. The Critical Public Safety Capital Needs were identified, in priority order, as follows:
Emergency Communication System Replacement - $15,000,000
Emergency Operations/Dispatch Center Facility - $ 6,500,000
Fire Apparatus Replacement Program - $ 6,800,000
Reconstruct/Relocate Fire Station #5 - $ 3,500,000
TOTAL - $31,800,000
In discussions and presentations leading up to the approval of the PSST extension, the plan to finance the Emergency Communications (Radio) System and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) facilities through some type of debt issuance was discussed and acknowledged, due to the need to have those facilities functional before sufficient PSST revenues would accrue. Under this plan, available PSST Fund ba...
Click here for full text